Horace Walpole, writer, politician and connoisseur ; essays on the 250th anniversary of Walpole's birth / Edited by Warren Hunting Smith.

Other author Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Other author Smith, Warren Hunting, 1905-1998.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, 1967.
Descriptionxii, 358 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portrait ; 26 cm
Subjects
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.

Contents Horace Walpole and the politics of the early years of the reign of George III, by J. Brooke.--The only unadulterated Whig, by A.S. Foord.--Horace Walpole's political articles, 1747-49, by R. Sedgwick.--Walpole and the Duke of Newcastle, by G.L. Lam.--Walpole, pro-American, by B. Knollenberg.--Walpole's reflections on the revolution in France, by R.A. Smith.--Horatius Italicus, by W.H. Smith.--The Elizabethan Walpoles, by R.W. Ketton-Cremer.--Horace Walpole and the knight of the brush, by F.W. Hilles.--The earlier owners of Walpole's books, by A.T. Hazen.--A note on the prints at Strawberry Hill, by A.H. Mayor.-- Walpole and the taste for French porcelain, by F.J.B. Watson.--The devil's looking glass; the magical speculum of Dr. John Dee, by H. Tait.--Walpole versus Lady Mary, by R. Halsband.--The theatre of Geo. 3, by C.B. Hogan.--Two unpublished fairy tales by Horace Walpole, by A.D. Wallace.--The part played by Horace Walpole and James Boswell in the quarrel between Rousseau and Hume; a reconsideration, by F.A. Pottle.--Walpole and Pearch, by H.W. Liebert.--Horace Walpole and Edmond Malone, by J.M. Osborn.--Appendix I. Walpole's purchases of porcelain, by F.J.B. Watson.--Appendix II. Items falsely labelled as Dr. Dee's, by H. Tait.--Appendix III. Walpole's annotations to Lady Mary's poems, by R. Halsband.--Appendix IV. Reply to Walpole's letter to Rousseau, by F.A. Pottle.
Bibliography noteBibliographical footnotes.
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